Post by The RSA (The royal society for arts, manufactures and commerce)

What do we mean when we call something “evidence”? In visual culture, images have long been treated as a form of proof – shaping how we understand inequality, gender and lived experience. But images are never neutral. They are framed, selected, circulated and interpreted. As AI-generated imagery becomes more widespread, that relationship becomes even more complex. When synthetic images can look indistinguishable from documentary ones, the authority we place in images begins to shift. In Bodies of Evidence, Imogen Bakelmun explores what this means – and how projects like Global 50/50s This is Gender collection are rethinking how images are made, and what they make visible. Explore the full photo essay in Issue 1 of #RSAJournal: https://thersa.co/4cLjHXW